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RFI
April 21, 2018
In the meantime, Sri Lanka which has been trying to recover economically, politically and socially from its drawn-out, three-decade-long civil war, owes China billions of dollars. The International Monetary fund chief Christine Lagarde has alerted China and countries potentially benefitting from the ChineseÃâà...
Sunday Leader
April 21, 2018
The annual US human rights report noted that the Sri Lankan Government has made limited progress toward establishing additional transitional justice ... Suspects arrested under the PTA, including since the war ended in 2009, gave accounts of torture and mistreatment, forced confessions, and denial ofÃâà...
Daily Mirror
April 20, 2018
The UN Convention outlawing the use of chemical weapons was aimed at big time use of them when they become dangerous enough to dominate a battle field- as the Germans used them in the First World War and Saddam Hussein (then supported by US arms sales) used them against Iran and againstÃâà...
Tamil Guardian
April 20, 2018
The United State's State Department highlighted militarisation and impunity as significant human rights issues in Sri Lanka in its annual human rights report. ... the State Department said the Sri Lankan government made “limited progress toward establishing additional transitional justice mechanisms”.
Toronto Star
April 20, 2018
A notice of Kirushnakumar Kanagaratnam's death has been placed on his street in Jaffna, Sri Lanka to guide mourners. (Suthakaran ... Kanagaratnam's youngest brother, Sureshkumar, was shot and killed in March 2007 during the civil war between the Sri Lankan government and Tamil fighters. The familyÃâà...
Livemint
April 20, 2018
The third resort, Wild Coast Tented Lodge, was launched in November and completes what Malik calls the circuit of the Resplendent Sri Lanka journey: tea (Tea ... “We bought four colonial-era tea-planter residences that were vacant because of the war, restored them and started Tea Trails,” says Malik.
Radio Times
April 19, 2018
ITV's medical drama stars Amanda Redman and Amrita Acharia as doctors in a cottage hospital in the south Indian state of Kerala, but, as is often the case on screen, all is not as it seems: it's actually filmed nearly 400 miles away across the Indian Ocean in Sri Lanka. Since the civil war ended in 2009, SriÃâà...
The Hindu
April 19, 2018
At Kankesanthurai, there is a Sri Lankan Army war memorial, which proclaims 'Unity in diversity, is the strength of Sri Lanka'. The next visit was to the infamous Elephant Pass, a choke point surrounded by the vast Jaffna lagoon, connecting the road and railway line between Jaffna and the rest of Sri Lanka.
Financial Advisor Magazine
April 19, 2018
But locals remember it like it was yesterday. The civil war stretched from July 1983, when the Tamil Tigers first struck the Sinhalese government's armed forces, until May 2009, when the militia lost its last fight. In between, Sri Lankan civilians were in the crossfire. In the three years that followed the 2004-05Ãâà...
The Australian Tribune
April 16, 2018
When it was clear Sri Lanka couldn't pay back, they agreed to give China a 99-year lease on the port. Many believe similar deals will happen to other projects when countries can't pay. With their 99-year lease on the Sri Lankan port, China also has a 40-year lease on a statically situated port in Pakistan.
Tamil Guardian
April 16, 2018
The Sri Lankan military held yet another show at it's military base in Jaffna last week, despite calls for the army to vacate the privately-owned land on which the ... in Palaly, the site of a massive High Security Zone which remains inaccessible to locals and landowners, nine years after the end of the war.
Sri Lanka Guardian
April 15, 2018
( April 15, 2018, Chennai, Sri Lanka Guardian) The civil war in Syria for over six years now has been prolonged mainly due to the interference in the internal affairs of Syria by Russia and US and it's allies. It is well known that Syrian government has been receiving direct support from Russia and the rebelsÃâà...
SLBC
April 14, 2018
As Donald Trump embarked on a White House address to announce the action, explosions were heard in the Syrian capital Damascus, signalling a new chapter in the brutal seven-year Civil War. The Pentagon listed three targets that had been struck. However, Syrian state television said, governmentÃâà...
SLBC
April 14, 2018
Army Commander: Lieutenant General Mahesh Senanayake says, the demand for military personnel from Sri Lanka, for international peace keeping operations, is high, owing to their expertise in launching the largest humanitarian mission during the country's civil war. Therefore, in keeping with itsÃâà...
New Straits Times Online
April 14, 2018
Balakrishnan, still a teenager, had just arrived from Sri Lanka — where a long-standing civil war was raging — with a high school degree and little else. ... This Sri Lankan-run Italian restaurant serving local specialties like “pisarei e faso” — small gnocchi of flour and breadcrumbs in a piping hot sauce ofÃâà...
SLBC
April 14, 2018
Russia has warned the US that launching air strikes in response to a suspected chemical attack in Syria, could spark a war between the two countries. Western powers are thought to be preparing for strikes, but Russia, a Syrian ally, opposes such action. Moscow's UN Ambassador: Vassily Nebenzia says,Ãâà...
Mental Floss
April 6, 2018
The ship was attacked by Japanese bombers on April 9, 1942 while anchored in Trincomalee harbor in what is now Sri Lanka. As fire spread, the ship was abandoned, and most of the Allied aircraft and ammunition it was carrying was rescued. On August 24, 1943, the 453-foot vessel was deliberately sunkÃâà...
ucanews
April 1, 2018
Sinnasami Nallathambi (left) is one of hundreds of Tamils still waiting for news about their loved ones who went missing during Sri Lanka's civil war. ... Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, who also serves as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, appointed commissioners to run the office for aÃâà...
Geopoliticalmonitor.com
March 31, 2018
Recent events such as the political turmoil in the Maldives and the ethnic clashes in Sri Lanka only add more troubles to a region already marked by ... As such, comparing the two most recent and notable events affecting the area, namely the Maldivian political crisis and the Sri Lankan ethnic clashes, offersÃâà...
EconomyNext
March 31, 2018
... Sri Lanka's Ceylex Engineering (Pvt) Ltd, and India's Prathiba Industries had won a deal to build a water supply project in the former war-torn town of Mullativu in Northern Sri Lanka. The cabinet ... A 30-year war in the area ended in 2009 with the defeat of Tamil Tiger separatists who controlled the town.
Asia Times
March 30, 2018
On the night of February 22, four drunken Muslim youths traveling on a three-wheeler in Sri Lanka's Kandy district beat up a Sinhala Buddhist truck driver because he ... Its outcome was the horrific 30-year armed conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
La Croix International
March 29, 2018
Rights organizations and the families of people considered "forcibly disappeared," such as those who have been missing since the end of Sri Lanka's long civil war, are pressing the United Nations for answers to unresolved war crimes. Many have been waiting three years since the U.N. adopted aÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 28, 2018
About a month ago, a 'Missing Lovers Day' was held in Sri Lanka by a local group called The Families of the Disappeared. Their intent of the event was for it to be “an evening of love stories, love songs, and hope. The Sri Lankan Civil War occurred between the Sinhalese and Tamils for decades afterÃâà...
ITV News
March 28, 2018
Their mistrust of the authorities is illustrated by a striking photograph of Sri Lanka's current leader, President Sirisena, surrounded by Tamil schoolchildren. Incredibly, five mothers have come forward and claimed that their missing teenagers are in the photograph. According to her mother, Jeromy KasipillaiÃâà...
The Straits Times
March 26, 2018
Ranil Wickremesinghe, Prime Minister in the national unity government comprising the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and the United National Party (UNP), ... including ethnic Tamils and Muslims, has frittered away the golden opportunity to solve the ethnic crisis that led to the 30-year civil war and provide aÃâà...
The Indian Express
March 26, 2018
Amidst political uncertainty and diminishing popular support for the government, the prospect of the new party of Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka's former strongman, returning to power has also become real. A Rajapaksa-led government is certain to rollback the reform agenda that Sri Lankan voters optedÃâà...
The Sunday Times Sri Lanka
March 26, 2018
I don't understand why. I don't know why the Sri Lankan government is also worried about them meeting us. A decade after the war, do you think 'peace' is at hand? The war lasted 30 years. I consider the post-war developments in Sri Lanka a bigger victory than defeating the LTTE. But that has not beenÃâà...
Daily Mirror
March 26, 2018
“It was never a war between the Sinhalese army and the Tamils but between the Sri Lanka government and a terrorist organisation. ... There is widespread criticism that the Sri Lankan President's approach in issues such as corruption and the way he deals with Opposition leaders is similar to that of Modiji.
Euromoney magazine
March 26, 2018
When Sri Lanka finally emerged from a long and bloody civil war in 2009, it borrowed heavily to pay for an ambitious infrastructure spree, putting enormous .... confidence,” says Deshan Pushparajah, managing director at investment bank Capital Alliance Partners, which advised the Sri Lankan insurer.
The News Minute
March 26, 2018
These are amongst the titles that 31-year-old Namal Rajapaksa, son of former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa balances. Namal belongs to a political family accused of carrying out some of the most brutal human right violations during Sri Lanka's civil war. Seven members of the Rajapaksa clanÃâà...
The Guardian
March 26, 2018
'The biggest game changer in 100 years': Chinese money gushes into Sri Lanka .... They were built in the fury of development that followed the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, fuelled by $8bn borrowed from China by the previous president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, who dreamed of turning his ancestral homeÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 25, 2018
Islamophobia has surged in Sri Lanka since 2009, when a long civil war against Tamil fighters was brutally ended by Rajapaksa, amid charges by a United Nations panel of experts of human rights violations, including extrajudicial killings by the military and STF. As in Myanmar, from where 700,000Ãâà...
The Siasat Daily
March 12, 2018
In Sri Lanka, Buddhist militancy has gone mainstream, with clergy seen clashing with riot police and leading anti-government protests. During the brutal 26-year civil war, the ire of ultra-nationalists among the mainly Buddhist Sinhalese majority was focused on the island's Tamil Hindus. But after the TamilÃâà...
The New Daily
March 12, 2018
It's understood the parents came to Australia separately by boat in 2012 and 2013 following Sri Lanka's brutal civil war, and settled in the Queensland town on a bridging visa, which expired last Monday. “They have lived here for over three years and are a caring, hardworking family,” petition creator AngelaÃâà...
Daily Mirror
March 12, 2018
The worst was Black July that led to a 30-year civil war, where Sri Lanka sank to its lowest web, both politically and economically and was designated as an unruly and failed state, where ... Scholars are of the view that Sri Lankan Muslims are descendant of Marakkar, Memons and Pathans of South India.
The Straits Times
March 9, 2018
Sri Lanka does not appear to be a country that is blessed with an awful lot of luck. Despite all signs of powering ahead after independence from the British in 1948 - at one point, it was seen as a nation of such potential that it was considered worthy of emulation by Singapore - the inability of its rulers andÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 7, 2018
A nationwide state of emergency is being enforced in Sri Lanka to prevent attacks on Muslims. Buddhist mobs set fire to homes and ... A varied mix of ethnicities and religions make their home on the island, where a 26-year-long civil war ended in 2009. What will it take to end the recurrent religious friction,Ãâà...
Channel NewsAsia
March 1, 2018
Sri Lanka has appointed commissioners to a special panel tasked with investigating war-era disappearances, three years after President Maithripala Sirisena (R) ... Sri Lankan forces were accused of killing up to 40,000 Tamil civilians during the final months of the war while defeating separatist Tamil TigerÃâà...
News Today
February 28, 2018
A report submitted by its chief Zeid Raad Al Hussein advocated application of universal jurisdiction on Sri Lanka to ensure accountability. Sri Lankan troops and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have faced international condemnation for alleged human rights violations during the long-drawnÃâà...
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
Voters delivered a shock repudiation of Rajapaksa's government three years ago, as the UN investigated war crimes against Tamil civilians, dissidents disappeared in unmarked white vans and warnings were issued that Sri Lankan democracy was at risk. In February, however, they gave the BuddhistÃâà...
ucanews
December 31, 1999
Journalists and civic rights activists hold a protest in Colombo by hoisting photos of slain journalists while shouting slogans at the 'Black January' event to honor Sri Lankan reporters who have either disappeared or been abducted or killed. (Photo by ucanews.com).
ucanews
December 31, 1999
Two Sri Lankan priests who chose to stay among war-affected Tamils have written books about their experiences and challenges. Senior Catholic Priest Father Terrence Fernando and Anglican Father Mariamuttu Sathievel launched their books on March 5 at the Center for Society and Religion in Colombo.
New York Times
December 31, 1999
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka's government imposed a nationwide state of emergency on Tuesday after mob attacks against the minority Muslim population in a central district, violence that has highlighted the country's fragility as it tries to recover from decades of civil war. The unrest in the district ofÃâà...
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